Personal Experience
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Participation in NWU Courses Taken
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This shows the distribution of some of the classes I have personally taken in the past two years at NWU. I chose the classes which fall inside my area of interest: physics, math, and computer science.
It is obvious that there are more men in almost every single one of these classes. My major is physics, which includes a majority of classes where I was the only female.
STEM Degrees
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Percentage of Women Obtaining STEM Degrees
Notes about Heatmap
Both of these graphs display the number of STEM degrees/certificates conferred to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and nonresident aliens.
This heatmap shows the progression for percentage of women obtaining each degree as time goes on. The darker shading at the top is important to note.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2010 through Fall 2019, Completions component. (This table was prepared July 2020.)
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STEM Degrees by Sex 2009-2019
Notes about Degree Levels
Both of these graphs display the number of STEM degrees/certificates conferred to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and nonresident aliens.
This time series shows the major difference between sexes for degrees awarded, especially at the bachelors level.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2010 through Fall 2019, Completions component. (This table was prepared July 2020.)
STEM Occupations
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Median Salary: Men vs. Women
Notes about Salaries
The wage gap is very apparent across all fields in STEM, as well as the total employment value which is included.
STEM2 Occupations - Does not include healthcare occupations
SOURCE: United States Census Bureau. STEM and STEM-Related Occupations by Sex and Median Earnings: ACS 2019
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Percentage STEM Positions - Women
Percentage STEM Positions - Men
Notes about Chloropleths
These maps display the percent of STEM workers from each sex from each state. There is a remarkable difference between these values.
Source: IWPR analysis of American Community Survey microdata (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Version 5.0).
Engineering
Top Colleges Awarding Engineering Degrees to Women (2018)
This is a map of the top 50 colleges in the US awarding bachelor degrees in engineering to women. Scrolling and selecting a point will display the ranking and number of degrees awarded for the institution. (379 colleges were included in this data)
SOURCE: American Society for Engineering Education (2018). Engineering by the Numbers.
Engineering Enrollment 2003-2013
The obvious gap in this data between sexes isn’t the only thing to note about this graph. The regression lines show that the enrollment of men is growing at a faster rate than for women.
SOURCE: Engineering Workforce Commission, Engineering & Technology Enrollments: Fall 2013. SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, special tabulations of U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Fall Enrollment Survey.
Female researchers in Engineering & Technology, 2013 or closest year
This map shows around 70 countries around the world. Clicking on a country will display the percentage of women making up the workforce for researchers in engineering and technology, if available.
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, August 2015.
NWU Graduates
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Graduates from NWU in Past 10 Years
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This data is the total degrees awarded for these STEM fields at NWU from the past 10 years, separated by sex. It is interesting to see the major gaps in some majors which have women earning more degrees than men.
Again focusing on the disciplines of my own interest, there is still a noticeable gap in the math and physics majors which aligns with the rest of the data from this dashboard.